"Trying on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... also at this hour. A tailor from Casterbridge was with him, assisting him in the operation of trying on a new coat that had just been ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... reason to reproach himself for his want of care, the situation was none the less difficult or trying on that account. But there was one compensating advantage: as he passed through the narrow outlet of the lake, the broad surface of the Chetemache was before him. It was forty miles long by ten miles wide, and afforded him abundant ...
— Watch and Wait - or The Young Fugitives • Oliver Optic
... that; but only think of trying on a diver's suit, and being supplied with air from above, through a tube into ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... content to go on all day trying on different jewels and looking at herself in the little silver-framed mirror that the Princess took from one of the shelves, but the boys were soon weary ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... silent in the room, waiting for the lad whom they both loved even better than a brother. The past days had been trying on all of them—on every one in Elmwood Hall—from the most lordly Senior, or calm post-graduate, to the "fuzziest" Freshman, who thought he bore the weight of the whole school ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman
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